Weight Management

Thin Dining
Assists weight-conscious adults in selecting low-fat, low-calorie restaurant cuisine that is good tasting. Topics covered include restaurants, fast foods, salad bars, airline meals, parties, and diet saboteurs.
18 minutes, Copyright 1996.
Price $89 VHS Item #111
     Spanish Version Item #111s
Price $119 DVD Item# 111DVD

How To Keep a Food Diary
Stresses the fact that a problem well defined is half solved. By identifying eating patterns, solutions become apparent. The nuts and bolts of weight-management record keeping are explained and demonstrated.
12 minutes, Copyright 1994.
Price $89 VHS Item #145
Price $119 DVD Item #145DVD

Break your Behavior Chains
Patients are taught coping strategies for low-fat grocery shopping, slower eating, dealing with leftovers, designated eating places, impulse delay, and how to deal with emotional eating. 20 minutes, Copyright 1996.
Price $89 VHS Item #146
     Spanish Version Item #146s
Price $119 DVD Item #146DVD

Nobody's Perfect: How to Cope with Relapse
Focuses on how to avoid lapses by pre-planning; becoming more aware of emotional eating and how to handle it; explores issues of self-esteem and negative self-talk with an imaginary trial scene. 16 minutes, Copyright 1996.
Price $89 VHS Item #160
Price $119 DVD Item #160DVD

Popular Diet Fads
How often have you heard these? Fat-free foods are calorie free! Chromium picolinate is a magic diet pill! DNA made me do it! Pasta is fattening! This videotape is entertaining as it overturns current weight management fads. Great discussion starter!
15 minutes, Copyright 1997.
Price $89 VHS Item #166
Price $119 DVD Item #166DVD

Healthy, Hearty Breakfast
Ideas and examples to make breakfast the start of a great day! 20 minutes, Copyright 1998.
Price $29.95 VHS Item #170,
Price $59.95 DVD Item #170DVD

Soup & Salad
Includes recipes for French Onion Soup, Easy Chicken Soup, Shrimp Coleslaw, Broccoli Salad and more…
20 minutes, Copyright 1998.
Price $29.95 VHS Item #171
Price $59.95 DVD Item #171DVD

Fruits & Vegetables
Includes recipes for Orange Spinach Delight, Fruit Sauce,
Red Beans and Rice, and more…
18 minutes, Copyright 1998.
Price $29.95 VHS Item #173
Price $59.95 DVD Item #173DVD

Pasta, Rice & Bread
Includes recipes for Vegetable Primavera,
Creamy Dill Fettuccini, Herb Rice Blend, and more…
18 minutes, Copyright 1998.
Price $29.95 VHS Item #175
Price $59.95 DVD Item #175DVD

Exercise and Weight Management
Stresses the importance of exercise in a successful weight management program; makes viewers aware of latest advice on the benefits of activity even when fitness target levels are not reached; advice on how to integrate activity and exercise. 17 minutes, Copyright 1996. 
Price $89 VHS Item #190
     Spanish Version Item #190s
Price $119 DVD Item #190DVD

Carbohydrate Counting For Persons with Diabetes
This videotape clearly explains the current approach to meal planning: carbohydrate counting. Included in the tape is a revised version of the exchange system focusing on carbohydrates; why TOTAL carbohydrate intake is more important than type. 16 minutes, Copyright 1997.
Price $89 VHS Item# 195
     Spanish Version Item #195s
Price $119 DVD Item #195DVD

Stress Management for Dieters
The key idea in this title is that although stress is unavoidable, there are coping strategies other than food, and these strategies can be learned. Topics include impulse control; learning new self-talk; time management; how to say no; relaxation techniques such as deep breathing; relaxation response and progressive relaxation.
19 minutes, Copyright 1997.
Price $89 VHS Item #204
Price $119 DVD Item #204DVD

Cholesterol & Diet
Blood vs. dietary cholesterol; role of saturated fat; high density and low density lipoproteins; dietary sources of saturated fat and cholesterol; dietary management including label reading; food preparation tips e.g. low cholesterol omelet, and much more. 15 minutes, Copyright 1997.
Price $89 VHS Item #245
Price $119 DVD Item #245DVD

Fast Food: The Good and the Bad
Fast food choices; reducing fat and calories; taking advantage of more healthful options; suggestions for burger, chicken, and pizza places; Mexican food; side dishes and beverages; breakfast options; information sources. 15 minutes, Copyright 1999. 
Price $89 VHS Item #247
     Spanish Version Item #247s
Price $119 for DVD Item #247DVD

Obesity
Definition of obesity; BMI explanation; issue of nature vs. nurture; pros and cons of surgical procedures; fallacy of "miracle" diets; role of diet pills; associated health problems; childhood obesity including parental modeling and activity deficits. 16 minutes, Copyright 2000. 
Price $89 VHS Item #281
Price $119 DVD Item #281DVD

Child Obesity
A guide for parents.  Childhood obesity risk factors; obesity definitions; possible lifestyle and family changes that ameliorate this problem; need for support and validation. 14 minutes, Copyright 1999. Click here to see a sample clip of this video.
Price $89 VHS Item #296
     Spanish Version Item #296s
Price $119 DVD Item# 296DVD

Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

New video explains the connections between obesity and type 2 diabetes.  Discusses damage caused by free fatty acids and other ways in which obesity contributes to diabetes and heart disease.  Lots of tips on how to move more and eat less.    

19 minutes, Copyright 2006

Price $89 VHS Item # 324N

Price $119 DVD Item # 324DVD

Snack Facts
Entertaining format stresses need for good nutrition in healthy development; presentation focuses on vitamins, protein, minerals, carbohydrates; concept of empty calories explained as moderate intake of fat and sugar urged; variety is promoted. 15 minutes, Copyright 2001. 
Price $89 VHS Item #357
     Spanish Version Item #357s
Price $119 DVD Item #357DVD

The Very Low Carbohydrate Diet
Although this diet is higher in saturated fat than others, if people stick to it their blood lipids don’t seem to head into the dangerous territory once feared, at least in the short term. Weight loss might be the answer. Healthier protein choices, such as fish and the white meat of chicken are emphasized.
20 minutes, Copyright 2006.
Price $89 VHS Item# 406
Price $119 DVD Item# 406DVD

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